The habitats where broad buckler fern~(Dryopteris dilatata) grows:

Altantic hazel wood
Atlantic oak wood
Beech wood
Bracken scrub
Brownfield
Caledonian forest
Coastal floodplain grazing marsh
Damp fertile disturbed
High montane heath and snow bed
Limestone pavement
Lowland dry oak and birch wood
Lowland fen
Lowland mixed oak and ash wood
Montane dwarf shrub heath
Montane scrub
Mountain ledge
Nutrient rich eutrophic lake
Raised bog
Rocky slope
Scree
Turlough and fluctuation mere
Upland birch wood
Upland dry heath
Upland mixed ash wood
Wet woodland
Wood pasture